A small and amusing note from my Gender & Spec Fic students: We read [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup (' ') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] A small and amusing note from...Tortall junkies started making smothered giggling noises. Oh George/Alanna - theirloveissoobvious! They have a short paper due tomorrow, and I'm kind of hoping that I get lots of Tortall readings.

Travel Light , Naomi Mitchison What a wonderful find. Mitchison’s part-fantastical, part-historical tale of a young girl named Halla, cast out by a wicked step-mother, mothered by bears, raised by...children’s novel as The Hobbit , or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe or A Wrinkle in Time . Please, if you have kids –especially girls, but boys too – in your life, give them this book.

Although I am at 213 books in total, I seem to be reading faster than I am reviewing, so I thought i would post the list so far, togetehr with links to the reviews, and hopefully I will catch up on the...5 Book Reviews 162.5 to 167 Book Reviews 168 to 169.5 Book Reviews 170.5 to 174.5 Book Reviews 175.5 to 177 Book Reviews 178 to 182 Book Reviews 183 to 188 Book Reviews 189 to 193

I fell woefully behind in updating (I haven't updated since book #17, which I posted from a now abandoned and deleted LJ). I'm going to begin again, starting only with the last 3 books I read. #53- ...David Levithan #50 The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Gallante #51 The Fortunes of Indigo Skye by Deb Calletti #52 No Choirboy: Murder, Violence and Teens on Death Row by Susan Kuklin

Here are books 11-14 from my Book List 2008 . The links lead to more detailed reviews in my journal. 11. Title: Princess Ben Author: Catherine Gilbert Murdock Pages: 344 Thoughts: Link Review...finishing it. However, I slogged my way through because the authors would throw out gems of plot twists every once in a while. I loved the plot twist at the end, but I don't think I would read a sequel

I've lots of things to post about - drinking absinthe, bombs, food porn, etc. etc., but this is not that post. I've just discovered that Lucy Maud Montgomery killed herself in 1942. Anne & Emily, Valancy...the short stories - ghosts, and divorces and illegitimate children and alcholics and depressions, always depression - and I was so fascinated. This, though. This makes me feel... I don't know what

36/50 The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker Basically the story of the frog prince with a slight twist. Maybe I've been spoiled by other children's books that can appeal to all ages, but The Frog Princess...audience doesn't care. I'm wondering why this is a book in the first place (a movie is supposedly in the works). Next: Kabul Beauty School , Peter and the Starcatchers Rest of My Reading List

The letter meme, from tiamatschild , who gave me "L": Lu . I've always wanted to be Lucy. She manages to be a True Believer without being an ingenue, or ever being saccharine. She's a powerhouse...prejudice - she doesn't even consider pulling away from Luke when he tells her about the Skywalker family drama, about who's son he really is. Her capacity to love runs deeper than that, and stronger.

Here are books 6-10 from my Book List 2008 . The links lead to more detailed reviews in my journal. 6. Title: Little (Grrl) Lost Author: Charles de Lint Pages: 271 Thoughts: Link Review in...reading about his adventures, but the lackluster ending ruined it for me. If there were few more pages to tie up loose ends and to satisfy my curiosity about certain things, I would have liked it more

101. The One Left Behind Willo Davis Roberts (3/5) Through a series of miscommunications among her large family, eleven-year-old Mandy has been left alone for the weekend at her family's home on the...to be a true assistant to Missy Violet. Hathaway is able to use few words to tell a gentle, interesting story that evokes all the sights, sounds, and smells of a Depression-era black community